yup, struggle session time

edit: no one is right, everyone is wrong :^)

edit 2: this post is actually dedicated to Amy Goodman, please stop trying to sound cool grandma

    • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
      3·
      4 years ago

      "Folx" is worse because it serves literally no purpose whatsoever, since "folks" is already gender neutral. Just more meaningless liberal newspeak

      • WetAssPossum [they/them,ey/em]
        2·
        4 years ago

        Folx was invented by queer people of color as not a gender neutral word, but a race neutral one. People of color are often excluded from queer spaces, so it's important to have this sort of language to include an extremely marginalized group of people.

        Also it makes cishet dorks mad. That alone is a massively important reason to keep it.

        • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
          ·
          4 years ago

          Could you explain how it's race neutral compared to "folks?" I've never heard that and I'm curious.

      • constantly_dabbing [none/use name]
        3·
        4 years ago

        meaningless liberal newspeak

        You're literally doing newspeak by limiting peoples thoughts and abilities to critique society by censoring words, you absolute moron

    • PzkM [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's why I suggest to use "Latin" - in Spanish it sounds fine and is naturally intelligible. In English writing, Latinx might work, only if you don't actually try to pronounce it "Latin-ecks"

          • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
            ·
            4 years ago

            Is there some nuance of Spanish orthography I'm not getting or did people really just stick an x on the end and expect people not to pronounce it for some reason

            • PzkM [he/him]
              ·
              4 years ago

              It's supposed to be like a variable "x" that does not specify typical endings of words "a" and "o". It's silent and the pronunciation is Latin. I guess english speakers got confused and started pronouncing it. Elsewhere, X itself is pronounced "equis" or "ekis". Irrelevant, but the letter X has a pretty interesting history in the Spanish language and you may be interested in checking it out.

              • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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                4 years ago

                Thanks for the explanation. Before I had no opinion in particular about the term Latinx, but using silent math variables in speech is skin crawlingly awful to me as an English teacher

                • TheOldRazzleDazzle [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Can confirm. Am PhD grad, I read articles and don't talk to people. Every time someone says a name or word out loud that I've seen dozens of times but never heard pronounced I nearly do a spit take. For example: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

                  Also to show you how pervasive this is the head of my department is fluent in Spanish and I'm pretty sure she says Latin-ecks.